Amy Purdy

So they realized I was internally bleeding and here I was so unstable as it was, I was hooked up to all these machines.

They couldn't even, I actually remember this at one point, um,

for some reason I remember this.

I remember like, you know, when you, okay, you know, when you're falling asleep and you, you dream that you fell off a cliff or something, you jump, you wake up.

I remember having a moment like that and my finger twitching and I'm hearing all the machines in the room go off and I'm slamming my hand down because just that motion made my whole body go out of whack.

So that's why,

They had me in that induced coma was to kind of paralyze me to not move at all.

But I was that unstable.

And then they had to move me into CAT scan to see what was going on.

And I guess it took an entire day and like eight doctors to move me from the hospital bed to the CAT scan bed because they had to move just finger, like fingertip by fingertip without, you know, disrupting my heart rate and all that stuff.

And so once they got me to CAT scan, they found out that my spleen was

um was about ready to burst it was 10 times its normal size and so they rushed me immediately into into surgery and i mean at that point my parents and my family thought you know that well they i mean it was a good i was absolutely going to die if i didn't do the surgery but there was a huge chance i was going to die by doing the surgery because i was so unstable as it was um

Yes.

This is the first surgery.

First of many.

Yeah.

So my spleen was 10 times its normal size and – And bleeding internally.

And bleeding internally.

Gosh.

I know.